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# William Franks (cricketer)

William Franks DL JP (23 July 1820 – 8 February 1879) was an English first-class cricketer and barrister.
Franks was born at Hatfield in July 1820. He was educated at Harrow School, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge. A student of the Inner Temple, he was called to the bar in 1846. Franks played first-class cricket for the Marylebone Cricket Club from 1845 to 1848, making seven appearances. He had little success in his seven matches, scoring 44 runs with a highest score of 16. Franks twice served the Marquess of Salisbury as his official private secretary at Hatfield House, in 1852 and 1858–9. He also served as both a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace for Hertfordshire, in addition to being a captain in the Hertfordshire Militia. Franks died at St Leonards-on-Sea in February 1879, after suffering from a long illness.
# William Fraser McDonell

William Fraser McDonell VC (17 December 1829 – 31 July 1894) was a British civil servant, judge and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He is one of only five civilians to have been awarded the VC.

## Details

Educated at Cheltenham College and East India Company College (later succeeded by the Haileybury and Imperial Service College), he was 27 years old, and a civilian in the Bengal Civil Service during the Indian Mutiny when the following deed took place on 30 July 1857 during the retreat from Arrah for which he was awarded the VC:
   Mr. William Fraser M'Donell, of the Bengal Civil Service, Magistrate of Sarun
   Date of Act of Bravery, 30th July, 1857
   For great coolness and bravery on the 30th of July, 1857, during the retreat of the British Troops from Arrah, in having climbed, under an incessant fire, outside the Boat in which he and several Soldiers were, up to the rudder, and with considerable difficulty cut through the lashing which secured it to the side of the boat. On the lashing being cut, the boat obeyed the helm, and thus thirty-five European Soldiers escaped certain death.
He was later a Judge of the High Court of Judicature in Calcutta from 1874 to 1876.

## The Medal

His VC is on display in the Lord Ashcroft Gallery at the Imperial War Museum, London.

## McDonell Monument Kolkata

Adjacent to the Kolkata High Court is a water fountain dedicated to Willam Fraser McDonell
# William Kerby

William Kerby may refer to:
* William F. Kerby (1908–1989), chairman and CEO of Dow Jones & Co. and publisher of The Wall Street Journal
* William J. Kerby (1870–1936), writer, sociologist and Catholic social worker
# William Gamble (business)

William Gamble (5 August 1805 – 20 March 1881) was a Canadian businessman and pioneer. He was the son of politician John Gamble and the brother of John William Gamble, and was born in Kingston, Upper Canada. He started a store in Toronto before becoming a miller in Etobicoke.
His business interests expanded to include a hotel, a distillery and shipping to transport his flour, as well as local crops, to Toronto. After 1835 he also became involved in developing Mimico and given right to King's Mill. He was active in building new roads and bridges, opening up territory for development. Flood damage by the Humber River in 1850, and the repeal of the British Corn Laws in 1849 (bringing a dramatic fall in the price of his flour) caused his milling business to collapse, but his reputation as a business leader endured and he was active in the foundation of the Bank of Toronto in 1855. The last remnants of his milling business fell out of his hands in 1862 when his mortgage was foreclosed, leaving him on the cusp of bankruptcy.
Gamble served as a director of the Bank of Upper Canada (appointed 1829), the York Board of Health (appointed 1833), and the British America Fire and Life Assurance Company (appointed 1834). In 1842, he was appointed as a Justice of the Peace. He was elected in 1850 to be the first reeve of the Township of Etobicoke. He also donated land for the creation of an Anglican church in Islington, St. George's-on-the-Hill, where he served as warden from 1846 to 1848 and from 1851 to 1852.
Gamble died in Toronto on 20 March 1881. He is a member of the Etobicoke Hall of Fame.

## Marriage

On 10 December 1833, Gamble married Elizabeth Bowles Brenchley. Together they had one daughter, Janice, born in 1838.
# William Mostyn-Owen

William "Willy" Mostyn-Owen (10 May 1929 – 2 May 2011) was a British art historian. He worked for some years with the art expert Bernard Berenson, and was his bibliographer. He was connected with the auctioneers Christie's for 30 years.

## Early life

William Mostyn-Owen was born on 10 May 1929 to Lt-Col Roger Arthur Mostyn-Owen (1888-1947) and wife Margaret Eva Dewhurst. The Mostyn-Owen family were military landed gentry of Woodhouse, Shropshire. He had three older brothers and a sister. His brothers all died during the Second World War, and his father died while William was in his teens, so that he inherited the family seat of Woodhouse and the Dewhurst family's Aberuchill Castle, Perthshire, at a young age. He was educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge.

## Career

After his graduation, Mostyn-Owen worked for the Fogg Museum at Harvard and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. In the 1950s, he spent six years working closely with Bernard Berenson, the art expert, at his Villa I Tatti near Florence, and acquired a deep understanding of the art of the Italian Renaissance. In Florence, the British consul commented that Mostyn-Owen was "worth a battleship" for his charm and tact when dealing with American President Harry S. Truman, the King of Norway Haakon VII and other visiting dignitaries.
He joined the auction house Christie's in London, alongside David Carritt, Noel Annesley, and Brian Sewell, and worked there for almost thirty years. He became a director in 1968, and chairman of Christie's Education from 1979 to 1988.

## Personal life

Mostyn-Owen's first wife from 28 September 1960 to 1989 was the Italian writer Gaia Servadio, with whom he had three children, Owen (b. 1962), Allegra (b. 1964) and Orlando (b. 1973). In 1968, they were living in a single wing of Aberuchill Castle which consisted of "23 rooms or so".
His second wife was Faith Clark, and his third was Jane Martineau, also an art historian, whom he married in 1992.
His daughter Allegra, an art teacher, was the first wife of the politician Boris Johnson. His son Orlando is an artist and a painter.
# William Marston

William Marston may refer to:
* William Moulton Marston (1893–1947), American psychologist, inventor and comic book writer who created the character Wonder Woman
* William H. Marston (1835–1926), early resident of Berkeley, California
# William Kingsmill

William Kingsmill may refer to:
* William Kingsmill (politician) (1905–1971), British politician and businessman
* William Kingsmill (priest) (died 1549), last Prior of Winchester; first Dean of Winchester, 1541–1549
* William Kingsmill (died 1618), English landowner
# William McIntyre (Australian cricketer)

William McIntyre (10 April 1877 – 18 April 1943) was an Australian cricketer. He played four first-class matches for New South Wales between 1905/06 and 1906/07.
# William S. Bennet II

William S. Bennet II (30 April 1934 – 24 November 2009) was an American business executive who introduced Yoplait single-serving yogurt to the United States. He was the son of Augustus Witschief Bennet (United States House of Representatives 1945–1947) and Maxine Layne Bennet, and grandson of William S. Bennet (US House of Representatives 1905–1911).

## Early life

Bennet was born in Newburgh, New York. He attended North Junior High School (1946–47) and The Kiski School (1947-1952), where he excelled in athletic activities. He served in the United States Army in Germany from 1952 to 1954. He obtained a BA degree from Amherst College in 1958, and married Alice Talcott (of New York City) in June 1958. They had three children.

## Career

Bennet began a sales career with Procter & Gamble in 1958. In 1960 he moved his family to Chicago to work in advertising sales for Look. In 1962 he moved to the Jewel Companies, where he rose to director of marketing for its foodstores division. During this time he obtained an MBA degree from the University of Chicago, attending night classes.
In 1968 Bennet led a group of investors to purchase a regional dairy producer, Michigan Cottage Cheese Company. He moved his family to Kalamazoo, Michigan to function as President and CEO of the business, which he soon expanded into a conglomerate of acquired divisions.
In 1972 the family moved to Paris, where Bennet immersed himself into a year–long intensive study of the yogurt business. He then used the facilities of his Michigan dairy business to develop Yoplait USA in 1973, and introduced that yogurt to the US market in 1974. He sold the two companies to General Mills in 1975, and moved his family to Concord, Massachusetts to establish himself as a consultant to the food industry. He served on the board of directors or advisors of Stoneyfield Farm Yogurt, The Country Hen, Grand Recipe Company, Inc., Intrinsic Solutions, Inc., Kettle Cuisine, Inc., BikeLink International and CityAccess.
He died on 24 November 2009, in Boston, Massachusetts. He had been diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies in 2006 and had been in declining health since then. His remains were cremated and the ashes interred at the family plot in Squam Lake, New Hampshire.

## Sports

In 1970 Bennet built the first platform tennis court in Western Michigan, and through sheer force of personality, persuaded local country clubs to construct a total of 16 more courts in the area, also creating a renowned and very popular regional tournament.
# William P. Latham

William Peters Latham, Sr. (4 January 1917 in Shreveport, Louisiana – 24 February 2004 in Denton, Texas) was an American composer and music educator.

## Teaching career

Latham was educated in Kentucky, Ohio, and New York, completing degrees in composition and theory at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Later, he was awarded a Ph.D. in composition at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York (1951). His principal composition teachers were Sir Eugene Aynsley Goossens and Howard Hanson.
Latham taught theory and composition at the University of Northern Iowa from 1946 to 1965, attaining the rank of professor of music in 1959. In 1965 he joined the faculty of the University of North Texas College of Music as professor of music and coordinator of composition. He was appointed director of graduate studies in music in 1969. In 1978 he was promoted to the rank of distinguished professor of music, the university's highest rank. Only seven other faculty members of the university had been so honored at that time. He retired from active service at UNT in June, 1984, and he was formally designated professor emeritus by the board of regents in November, 1984.

## Compositions

Latham composed 118 works; 62 have been published, 56 remain in manuscript, but all have been performed, many throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. He received numerous awards and commissions (29). His orchestral works have been performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Eastman-Rochester Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and Radio Orchestras in Brussels, Belgium and Hilversum, Holland, under such well known conductors as Eugene Goossens, Howard Hanson, Thor Johnson, Anshel Brusilow, John Giordano, and Walter Susskind.

## Death

Latham died in Denton, Texas, on February 24, 2004.
# William R. Moody

William Robert Moody Jr. (January 12, 1900 - December 21, 1985) was an American prelate who was Bishop of Lexington from 1945 to 1971.

## Early life and education

Moody was born in Columbus, Mississippi on January 12, 1900, the son of William Robert Moody and Daisy Butler. He studied at Hampden–Sydney College and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1921. After graduation, he taught English and Spanish at Greenbrier Military School in Lewisburg, West Virginia, and in 1922 he became head of the English department, a post he kept till 1923. After that, he enrolled at the Virginia Theological Seminary to study for the ordained ministry and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1926. On July 25, 1928, he married Cordie Lee Winston Moncure, and together had two children. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Hampden–Sydney College in 1944, and another from the Virginia Seminary in 1946.

## Ordained ministry

Moody was ordained deacon on 4, June 1926 by Bishop Beverley D. Tucker of Southern Virginia, and priest April 8, 1927 by Bishop Arthur C. Thomson, Coadjutor of Southern Virginia. Between 1927 and 1928, he served as priest-in-charge of St Andrew's Church in Lawrenceville, Virginia, Emmanuel Church in Callaville, Virginia and St Mark's Church in Cochran, Virginia. He then became rector of Grace Church in Silver Spring, Maryland and remained till 1933. In 1931, he also became Chairman of the department for religious education and a member of the Executive Council and the standing committee. In 1932, he served as instructor of Sacred Duties at St Alban's School for Boys in Washington, D.C. In 1933, he became rector of St Mark's Church in Washington, D.C., while in 1939 became rector of Christ Church in Baltimore.

## Bishop

On June 26, 1945, Moody was elected Bishop of Lexington on the third ballot. He was consecrated on October 24, 1945, at Christ Church Cathedral (Lexington, Kentucky), by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker. In 1947, he was involved in controversy over the remarriage of divorced persons. He retired in 1971.

## Books

Moody was the author of several books including:
* The Bishop Speaks His Mind (1959)
* The History of the Cathedral Domain in the Diocese of Lexington (1967)
# William Norris (1501–1568)

Sir William Norris (1501 – 30 January 1568), of Speke, Lancashire, was an English Member of Parliament.
He was the eldest son of Henry Norris of Speke whom he succeeded in 1524. He was knighted in 1531.
He was appointed High Sheriff of Lancashire for 1544–45 and served as a Justice of the Peace for Cheshire in 1547. He was Mayor of Liverpool for 1554–55.
He was elected a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Liverpool in April 1554.
He died in 1568 and was buried in Childwall. He had married twice: firstly Ellen, the daughter of Rowland Bulkeley of Beaumaris, Anglesey, with whom he had a son and 6 daughters and secondly Anne, the daughter and coheiress of David Myddelton of Chester, Cheshire, and the widow of Thomas Seton, with whom he had another 6 sons and 6 daughters. He was succeeded by his third but eldest surviving son Edward. His eldest son, William, had been killed at the battle of Pinkie in 1547.
# William Stumbels

William Stumbels lived and worked as a clockmaker in Totnes, Devon, from around 1700 to 1769. Two of his clocks can be found in Totnes Museum. A 14-foot high longcase clock made by him between 1743 and 1747, for which he charged £105, can be seen in the Marble Hall of Powderham Castle.
# William the Rich

William the Rich may refer to:
* William I, Count of Nassau-Siegen (1487–1559)
* William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516–1592)
* William Jennens (1701–1798) William the Miser, William the Rich, 'the richest commoner in England' who died intestate. The legal case dragged on for over 100 years.
# William Venable

William Venable may refer to:
* William W. Venable (1880–1948), U.S. Representative from Mississippi
* William Henry Venable (1836–1920), American educator
* Will Venable, American baseball player
* Max Venable (William McKinley Venable), American baseball player
# Willie Watson (English footballer)

William 'Willie' Watson was an English professional footballer who played as a full-back in the English Football League for Northampton Town.

## Career

Born in Carlisle, Watson joined his local North Eastern League club Carlisle United in 1919 after the Great War.
Watson then signed for newly elected Football League Third Division Northampton Town in 1920 following new manager Bob Hewison down from the North. He made his Football League debut against Queens Park Rangers at Loftus Road in September 1920. Watson played nine seasons as a first team regular playing over 40 games a season for each of his first six seasons and was an ever present in their 1924–25 campaign. He was part of the team that finished runners-up in the 1927–28 season, missing out on promotion, before retiring the at the end of the following season.
# William Scully Ltd.

William Scully Ltd. is a Canadian uniform accoutrements manufacturer based in Montreal, QC, Canada, founded in 1877 by William Scully, a British manufacturers’ Canadian Representative, in Toronto. He was the first Canadian representative of London's Welsh Margetson and Sons. The company remains a family owned and operated firm after five generations.

## History

In 1908, William Scully opened a factory in Montreal with the encouragement of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and with the regular orders assured by Sir Frederick Borden, Minister of Militia. The authorities of the various departments at Ottawa wanted to have as many of their requirements as possible manufactured in Canada, therefore William Scully made a visit to Great Britain, where he purchased the necessary machinery, latest designs and at the same time secured the services of thoroughly qualified foremen to take charge of the respective departments. It was the first and only firm in Canada that started manufacturing uniform caps, helmets, uniform buttons and metal badges and accouterments for Militia, The Royal Canadian Navy, police and other forces. William Scully guaranteed the Canadian government that his every product would equal or surpass the products of the finest British Houses.
The firm remained on University St. until it was expropriated in 1958 by the city to make way for Place Ville Marie. The firm moved to Craig St., and again in 1968 to its current location on Moreau St. in Montreal's east end, where the firm operates a 25,000 sq. ft. manufacturing plant.
William Scully Ltd. acquired J.R. Gaunt (Canada) in 1984.
The firm was tailor to Camilien Houde, General McNaughton, the first Governor General to be outfitted and uniformed in Canada – Lord Alexander. The firm was headwear supplier to Haille Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, whose dress uniform was tailored in 1955. It also outfitted President Nyerere's Tanzanian Army. The first Lieut. Governor's dress uniform made in Canada, both the tailoring and the gold hand embroidery was made on University Street. Today, the company holds contracts with units across Canada for the supply of uniform accoutrements and accessories.
Following the death of the company's founder, William Scully Esq. in 1921, his son Col. William Gladstone Scully, R.C.A., 2nd Heavy Field Battery, became president. Upon Willam G. Scully's death in 1947, his brother Sgt. Vincent England Scully, 1st Canadian Tank Battalion, C.E.F., became president. In 1957, Maj. Vincent G. Scully R.C.A., son of Col. William G. Scully became president. His sons, Dr. Richard Stuart Scully served as vice-president from 1967 to 1976, and his son John H. Scully served as a Director from 1976 to 2014. The current President is William B. Scully who became president in 2001.
Regimental Badges, regimental postcards, and other military accoutrements and accessories from the Boer War forward are displayed in military museums including the Canadian War Museum.
# William Thomson (physician)

William Thomson MD (3 July 1802 – 12 May 1852) was a Scottish medical author. He was professor of medicine at the University of Glasgow.

## Life

Thomson was born on 3 July 1802, the second son of Margaret Crawford Gordon, first wife of Dr John Thomson. They lived at Merchant Street, close to Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh's Old Town.
He was educated at the High School in Edinburgh. In 1818 he began studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He studied at the University of Glasgow from 1821 to 1822. He spent the summer of 1822 with Sir Robert Carswell in France, visiting both Paris and Lyons on a series of observations on human dissections, to aid Carswell in his work with Thomson's father.
In 1825 he settled in Edinburgh, living at 80 George Street in Edinburgh's New Town.
He began lecturing in medicine and physiology at the University of Edinburgh in 1826. During this period he also assisted his father during pathology lectures. From 1830, following a drop in his father's health he took on all roles himself. He received his doctorate (MD) in 1831. In 1840 he became official Senior Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1841 he was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. During his 11 years at the university, he also became a director of Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Gartnavel Mental Asylum. An outbreak of cholera at the asylum was addressed by Thomson; however, as a result of this process Thomson caught the disease.
He went to Edinburgh to consult his medical friends on his condition, but died of cholera a few days later, on 12 May 1852. He was buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh. The grave lies in the south-east section, just to the side of David Octavius Hill, who appears to have been his wife's cousin.

## Publications

* On the Black Deposit on the Lungs of Miners
* Sloughing of Some Portions of the Intestinal Tube (1835)
* A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Liver and Billary Passage (1841)

## Family

William was married to Eliza Hill (1804-1874), daughter of Ninian Hill WS. They had six children. Their son John Thomson (1828-1866) gained fame as a civil engineer laying Transatlantic telegraph cables.
He was half-brother to Allen Thomson, son of his father's second wife, who was also an eminent physician. Allen married William's sister-in-law, Ninian Jane Hill. His nephew, through this half-brother, was John Millar Thomson.
# William St Clair, 14th Baron of Roslin

William St Clair (died 1602) was a Scottish nobleman and the 14th Baron of Roslin.

## Early life

He was the son of William St Clair, 13th Baron of Roslin and Alison, daughter of George Home, 4th Lord Home.

## Baron of Roslin

In 1554, William St Clair, 14th Baron of Roslin was confirmed to the barony and present were Oliver Sinclair of Pitcairns, Edward Sinclair of Dryden and John Sinclair of Blans.
In 1559, he was appointed Justicary of the Lothians by Mary, Queen of Scots. He supported Queen Mary at the Battle of Langside in 1588 and obtained a remission for this in 1574. On 6 July 1573 he was charged to produce gold buttons belonging to the King's modir, which he denied having received.
On 12 October 1590 there was a Registration of Caution that he would not harm John Cricton of Brunstoun, and on 18 October he entered into caution to this effect. He was denounced as a rebel on 2 August 1591, but caution was found for him by Oliver Sinclair of Ravensneuk and Henry Sinclair of Quhitekirk, and on 10 August 1604 he had to enter into caution not harm Ravensneuke.
St Clair had collected many manuscripts which had been taken out of the monasteries during the Reformation.

## Family

According to Alexander Nisbet's a System of Heraldry, William St Clair married Isabel, daughter of Ker of Cessford, but according to Father Richard Augustine Hay's manuscript of 1690, he married Lindeasy, daughter of the Laird of Egle, brother of the Earl of Crawford, by whom he had the following children:
* Edward St Clair, who married Christian, daughter of George Douglas of Parkhead the Governor of Edinburgh Castle. Edward was childless and so signed the barony of Roslin over to his brother William in 1582.
* William St Clair, 15th Baron of Roslin.
* Elspeth St Clair.
* Isobell St Clair.
* Helen St Clair.